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No Carlos story this week, so we’ll have to make do with a Rosita tale.

A stray cat has been wandering through our yard lately; it is not a feral cat, far too well-groomed and such, so we think she’s a neighborhood cat just roaming through the yards. Still, Carlos decided to feed her so she’d keep snakes out of the yard ... not that we are overrun with snakes, Carlos is just terrified of them.

Trouble is, Rosita doesn’t like the strange cat on our deck and when the cat comes by Rosita runs into the sunroom hissing and howling and spitting at the glass.

Then the other night, Rosita sat at the front door, looking through the windows at the front yard, and began howling and hissing and spitting; I got up and looked but saw no cat. Later that night, Rodita was looking through one of the bedroom windows at the back of the house and began her tirade again. But, I said to Carlos, how can she see a cat out the bedroom window when that window is roughly seven feet above the ground; what is the stray cat standing on as Rosita hissed and spit and beat the window with her paws.?

Turns out it was not a stray cat but … and this is kind of embarrassing … it was Rosita’s own reflection that caused her angst. Yes, she was hissing and spitting and howling at herself, something we noticed she did as she walked past a mirror, or really anything that showed her reflection.

Seriously, the girl has lost her damned mind.

This Tuxedo Memory is from September 2014

“Dog and Caturday

We have a dog bed in the office, and when one of us is on the computer, Ozzo comes and gets into the bed for  a nap.

Tuxedo, on the other hand, sits on the desk, and after a while starts going Gargoyle: hanging over the side of the desk, staring at the dog. And, because Tuxedo is the second love of my life, I have a habit of saying to him, as he sits gargoyle, "Get Ozzo out of your bed, Tucky. Get him! Get him!"

And, as though he was my personal Flying Monkey, Tuxedo jumps from the desk and crawls into the bed, pushing Ozzo out to the floor.

Then one day Ozzo decided he'd had enough, and he would reclaim his bed. He failed. So he did the next best thing, by lying down next to, but not touching, never touching, Tuxedo.

Notice though, that Ozzo stays awake, ready to flee, while Tuxedo simply sleeps.”

Of note is that Tuxedo has zero f**ks to give while Ozzo is a slightly neurotic ball of f**ks.

I don’t follow the sportsball but I am hoping that the Kansas City Chiefs go to the Super Bowl because it will make the MAGAts so pissed off to see Taylor Swift’s face throughout the game.

After questioning Thing 45’s former deputy chief of staff, Dan Scavino, special counsel Jack Smith’s team was told that as the violence began to escalate January 6, that Thing 45 “was just not interested” in trying stop it. In fact, another former aide, Nick Luna, told Smith that when Thing 45 was told then-Vice President Mike Pence had to be rushed to a secure location, he said:

“So what?”

Lock that bitch up.

I got called "pretty" today! 

Well, okay, to be completely fair, the full statement was "You're pretty annoying" but I only focus on positive things.

I’m.Pretty!

A new study from Pew Research shows that when Americans are asked to check a box indicating their religious affiliation, 28% now check ‘none.’ Atheists, agnostics and those who say their religion is “nothing in particular” are now the largest cohort in America.

In 2007, Nones made up just 16% of Americans.

If you don’t think misogyny still exists in Hollywood recognize that the Barbie movie’s biggest nomination was for Ryan Gosling, who played Ken, and no nod at all for Barbie, AKA Margot Robie or the film’s female director Greta Gerwig.

Republican politicians in Kentucky are rallying behind a new bill that would authorize the use of force—and potentially deadly force—against unhoused people who are found to be camping on private property. The bill—AKA the “Safer Kentucky Act”—would target homelessness, drug possession and mental illness by drastically increasing criminal penalties for a range of offenses.

They will shoot the unhoused in Kentucky.

Aleksandar Rusić is a German fashion model who is the face of Giorgio Armani's Acqua di Gio Profondo fragrance campaign, but … Would You Hit It?

Architecture Wednesday: JLo's Lair

Yeah, I am no fan of JLo but … and this hurts a bit … while it’s too big and too much—just like JLo—I love this house of hers. Designed and built by iconic architect Samuel Marx in 1940 and clearly extensively remodeled, the nine bedroom, 13 bathroom,  13,000 square foot home sits on nearly 8 prime acres in Bel Air.

And is for sale at the low, low price of $39.95 million, marked down from $42.5 million!

Re-imagined as a one of a kind multi structure French Country refuge through a use of use of stone, wood and glass, its surrounded by a stunning garden. The main level features the foyer, dining room, and living room with high ceilings, bar, fireplace and steel windows and doors opening to stone terraces and a firepit.

There is a large chefs kitchen, with skylights, a breakfast area and keeping room with a stone fireplace, a family room, a game room, a TV room, a lounge, a theater room, a couple of offices and a gym. The Primary suite wing includes a library and sitting room, fireplace, his & hers dressing rooms and gorgeous baths all opening to private landscaped terraces and tranquil cascading stream.

The expansive grounds include a great guest house, 100 seat amphitheater—JLo loves to shake her booty on a stage—a pagoda with firepit, organic vegetable garden, entertainment pavilion with full kitchen, a private lake with sandy beach & outdoor shower and, of course, a pool. There is another separate guest cottage, large motor court, additional parking, massive lawn area and completely surrounded by specimen plants and mature trees.

And again … the price is marked down!

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